Hotline Miami

Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat. Set in an alternative 1989 Miami, you will assume the role of a mysterious antihero on a murderous rampage against the shady underworld at the behest of voices on your answering machine. Soon you'll find yourself struggling to get a grip of what is going on and why you are prone to these acts of violence.

Rely on your wits to choreograph your way through seemingly impossible situations as you constantly find yourself outnumbered by vicious enemies. The action is unrelenting and every shot is deadly so each move must be quick and decisive if you hope to survive and unveil the sinister forces driving the bloodshed. Hotline Miami’s unmistakable visual style, a driving soundtrack, and a surreal chain of events will have you question your own thirst for blood while pushing you to the limits with a brutally unforgiving challenge.

Comments

This is the best game I've played this year so far and definitely the best game to come out in 2012 - hands down.

It has:

Highly original beat 'em up style gameplay. Very fun gameplay indeed!

Lots of collectibles that don't feel redundant or annoying and genuinely impact the game, so lots of replayability

A very confusing story that has a lot more to it than immediately apparent... I had to play the game twice to fully understand. Unfortunately, I came to the conclusion that it ends on a cliffhanger. Hotline Miami 2, here I come!

Great art style - oldschool - but the right kind of old school and I'm saying that as someone who normally dislikes pixel art

Hotline Miami earns a place, therefore, on this list and among my favourite games of all time! Until Hotline Miami 2 comes out, of course. :)